Top Ten Joe Biden gaffes (with VIDEO)

If political gaffe-making were an art, Vice President Joe Biden would be Pablo Picasso, a prolific artist going from one campaign stop to the next creating vibrant and colorful abstractions of all shapes and styles.

Biden has mastered almost every gaffe-making technique in the book, ranging from the foot-in-mouth blurt to the comically unintentional innuendo to even the rarely used racially insensitive, back-handed complement.

In honor of his debate with Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan tonight, Texas on the Potomac brings you Biden’s top ten gaffes from the past four years.

Some are innocent and laughable while others are downright cringe worthy. Fair warning, the below clips could cause mild to severe second-hand embarrassment.

10. Lt. Governor?

This first goof up came before Biden’s previous debate match up against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008. In an attempt to talk up his opponent, Biden refers to a powerful speech made by a certain Lieutenant Governor of Alaska at the Republican National Convention.

9. Barack America

One good gaffe deserves another. Short after Barack Obama introduced him as “the next president… the next vice president of the United States,” Biden returned the favor, saying the next president would be none other than Barack “America.” The passionate crowd in Springfield, Ill., didn’t seem to mind, but the look on Obama’s face says it all: “Seriously, Joe?”

8. Joe Strangelove

This well-intentioned speech about Obama’s integrity takes a bizarre twist when Biden claims to have known three presidents “intimately.”

7. Big f—ing deal

Apparently underestimating the sensitivity of the microphones in the White House, Biden drops an f-bomb while sharing a few words of inspiration with Obama before the president signed the Affordable Care Act into law. This was, in fact, a momentous occasion, but Biden probably could chose his words more wisely.

6. The president’s stick

Like the “intimacy” comment, this next goof up had all the right intentions, but came out a bit too sexual to be taken seriously. The audience laughter didn’t help the matter.

5. Three letters: J-O-B-S

When trying to convince voters that you’re qualified to be the president’s number two, you might want to make sure they know you can count to four. Biden second grade teacher would not be pleased with this next clip.

4. What state is this, again?

Geography doesn’t seem to be Biden’s strongest subject either. While on the swing state campaign trail earlier this year, Biden closed out his speech by talking about the importance of winning North Carolina again like he and Obama did in 2008. Unfortunately for Biden, he was in that other southern swing state: Virginia. There’s more to come from this trip to the commonwealth.

3. “Stand up, Chuck”

This 2008 campaign stop took an awkward turn when Biden pointed out Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham and invited him to stand up to address the crowd. Unfortunately, Graham is wheelchair bound.

2. A clean and articulate African American

In an attempt to explain the historic significance of Obama’s run for president, Biden described his then opponent in the Democratic primary as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Not a good way to launch a bid for president.

1. Chains

Speaking of racial insensitivity; during Biden’s previously mentioned trip to Virginia, he told a largely black audience that Republican candidate Mitt Romney would unchain Wall Street and “put y’all back in chains.” This bit of rhetoric might have pushed the envelope just a little too much.

BONUS

We’ll leave with this little gem from Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, from a campaign stop in New Hampshire last month. The second lady made an inadvertent innuendo that even caught her by surprise.